Amuck

Definitions: Amuck

Amuck

Adjective

1. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon; "the soldier was completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk worker smashing windows".

Adverb

1. Wildly; without self-control; "when the restaurant caught fire the patrons ran amuck blocking the exit.

2. In a murderous frenzy; "rioters running amuck and throwing sticks and bottles and stones".

Date "amuck" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Amuck To run amuck. To talk or write on a subject of which you are wholly ignorant; to run foul of. The Malays, under the influence of opium, become so excited that they sometimes rush forth with daggers, yelling "Amoq! amoq !" (Kill! kill!), and fall foul of any one they chance to meet. "Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck and tilt at all I meet." Pope: Sattires, i. 69--70. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Amuck

Synonyms: berserk (adj), demoniac (adj), demoniacal (adj), possessed(p) (adj), amok (adv), murderously (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Attack	Lay about one, run amuck.
Excitability	Lose one's temper; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck; battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce.
Killing	Give no quarter, pour out blood like water; decimate; run amuck; wade knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood.
Violence	Verb: be -violent; Adjective: run high; ferment, effervesce; romp, rampage, go on a rampage; run wild, run amuck, run riot; break the peace; rush, tear; rush headlong, rush foremost; raise a storm, make a riot; rough house; riot, storm; wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out Herod, Herod; spread like wildfire.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Amuck

English words defined with "amuck": amok ♦ murderously ♦ To run a muck, To run amuck. (references)

Specialty definitions using "amuck": Opposition ♦ Run Amuck. (references)

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	He's the hairy handed gent who ran amuck in Kent (Werewolves of London; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: LeRoy P. Marinell, Waddy Wachtel and Warren Zevon)
Movie/TV Titles	Rastus Runs Amuck (1917)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Anarchy in Our Schools: America Run Amuck (reference) Battered Husbands: The Battle of the Sexes Is Running Amuck (reference) Bureaucracy runs amuck (reference) Duck Amuck (reference) Monster Rabbit Runs Amuck! (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	3 Ducks Amuck (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Corporate Punks Amuck (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo, who had been abroad to study the science of government, appointed one hundred of his fattest subjects as members of a parliament to make laws for the collection of revenue. Forty of these he named the Party of Opposition and had his Prime Minister carefully instruct them in their duty of opposing every royal measure. Nevertheless, the first one that was submitted passed unanimously. Greatly displeased, the King vetoed it, informing the Opposition that if they did that again they would pay for their obstinacy with their heads. The entire forty promptly disemboweled themselves. "What shall we do now?" the King asked. "Liberal institutions cannot be maintained without a party of Opposition." "Splendor of the universe," replied the Prime Minister, "it is true these dogs of darkness have no longer their credentials, but all is not lost. Leave the matter to this worm of the dust." So the Minister had the bodies of his Majesty's Opposition embalmed and stuffed with straw, put back into the seats of power and nailed there. Forty votes were recorded against every bill and the nation prospered. But one day a bill imposing a tax on warts was defeated -- the members of the Government party had not been nailed to their seats! This so enraged the King that the Prime Minister was put to death, the parliament was dissolved with a battery of artillery, and government of the people, by the people, for the people perished from Ghargaroo.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Amuck" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amuck" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

Expressions using "amuck": run amuck ♦ they ran amuck through the town ♦ To run amuck. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "amuck"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		amok (fierceness). (various references)

Albanian		lëshohem si i çmendur (run amok, run amuck), bëhem i padrejtur (run amok, run amuck). (various references)

Bulgarian		в гнева си (amok), извън себе си (amok). (various references)

Chinese		疯狂 (AMOK, Craziness, Crazy, demented, frenzied, Frenzies, frenzy, insane, insanity, mad, madness, maniacal). (various references)

Czech		vrhnout se (fall back on, fall on, plunge, pounce, tilt), šílet. (various references)

Danish		at gaa amok (androphonomania, homicidal mania, run amuck). (various references)

Dutch		amok (androphonomania, fierceness, homicidal mania, run amuck), woestheid (abandonment, fierceness, savageness), verwoedheid (fierceness, lust, passion), razerný (fierceness, rabies), hevigheid (fierceness, intensity, intensiveness strength). (various references)

Esperanto		amoko, furiozeco. (various references)

Farsi		یک نوع جنون دراثرمرض مالاریا, دیوانگی (Craze, Delirium, Insanity, Mania, Rage, Rave). (various references)

French		amok (amok, run amuck). (various references)

German		amok (amok). (various references)

Greek		έξω φρενών (aboil, amok, berserk, preposterous), αμόκ (amok, androphonomania, homicidal mania, run amuck). (various references)

Hungarian		elvakultan (amok, blindfold), ámokfutó (amok), ámokfutás (amok). (various references)

Indonesian		amukan (rampage, uncontrolled raging). (various references)

Italian		in preda a furia omicida (amok), freneticamente (amok, frantically), follemente (amok, madly, wildly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		落花狼藉 (committing violence on, in utter disorder, running amuck), 狂い回る (to rave, to run amuck), 暴れ狂う (to rage, to run amuck, to tear around). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くるいまわる (to rave, to run amuck), あばれくるう (to rage, to run amuck, to tear around), らっかろうぜき (committing violence on, in utter disorder, running amuck). (various references)

Pig Latin		amuckay

Portuguese		amoque (amok), possesso de fúria (amok), espéciedealienaçãocomtendência� práticadohomicídio. (various references)

Romanian		amoc (amok). (various references)

Russian		вне себя (amok, beside oneself, off one's head), в ярости (amok, frenzied). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		besno (amok, madly), besan (amok, furious, mad, sleepless, wild). (various references)

Spanish		locura (alienation, amok, craziness, Folly, insanity, lunacy, madness, piece of folly, wildness), loco (amok, barmy, bonkers, bugs, crack-brained, cracky, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, distraught, dunce, fogey, half wit, haywire, hectic, idiot, jenny ass, juggins, lemon, loco, loony, loose, mad, madman, nutty, out of one's mind, round the bend, up the pole, wall eyed, wet, whacky, wild, zany). (various references)

Swedish		amok. (various references)

Turkish		bunalım sonucu öldürme arzusu (amok). (various references)

Ukranian		шалено (amok, deliriously, headlong, madly, outrageously, toughly), шалений (amok, boisterous, dithyrambic, ecstatic, fierce, frantic, frenzied, lunatic, mad, outrageous, pelting, stormy, unruly, vehement, wild), нестямно (amok), нестямний (amok, boisterous, furious, heartrending, rampageous, rampant), несамовито (amok, fiercely, maniacally, outrageously), несамовитий (amok, delirious, ecstatic, frantic, heartbreaking, heartrending, irresponsible, non compos, outrageous, passionate, phrenetic, violent), амок (amok). (various references)

Vietnamese		như một người điên cu�"ng lên (amok). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "amuck": amucks. (additional references)
	Words ending with "amuck": muckamuck. (additional references)
	Words containing "amuck": muckamucks. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Amuck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aeuc, aluco, amak, amask, amc, amek, amic, amick, amik, Amlcd, Ammc, ammock, amoc, amocc, amock, amu, amuch, amuk, amux, anack, Aniushka, Anoushka, Anuak, anuk, Anushka, Auck, ayuck, Gauck, Mamuk, o'muck, Sammick. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "amuck" (pronounced umu"k)
4	u m u" k	amok.
3	-m u" k	muck, schmuck.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-k-m-u"
	-1 letter: mack, muck.
	-2 letters: amu, auk, cam, cum, mac.
	-3 letters: am, ka, ma, mu, um.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-k-m-u"
	+1 letter: amucks, umiack.
	+2 letters: buckram, mudpack, umiacks.
	+3 letters: blackgum, buckrams, humpback, megabuck, muckrake, mudpacks, quackism, truckman.
	+4 letters: blackgums, buckramed, humpbacks, maulstick, megabucks, muckamuck, muckraked, muckraker, muckrakes, quackisms, thumbtack, touchmark.
	+5 letters: buckraming, cockalorum, humpbacked, lumberjack, maulsticks, microquake, muckamucks, muckrakers, muckraking, multitrack, thumbtacks, touchmarks.
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